About me
- Plant Ecophysologist
- Ecosystem Ecologist

This semester we will practice being an ecologist

This semester we will ….
- Immerse ourselves in weekly ecological themes
- lecture
- journal club
- quantitative reasoning
- Run ecological experiments
- SOLVE a major ecological issue!
- Practice communicating science

What is ecology (textbook)?

What is ecology (textbook)?

- Relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings
- living and non-living components
- (1) Distribution and abundance of organisms
- (2) Interactions among organisms
- (3) Transformation and flux of energy and matter
Ecology spans many scales


Ecologist try to explain, understand and predict


What is the central need for ecology?

For Journal Club this week….
- Read “100 articles every ecologist should read”
- article and cheat sheet on SAKAI
- Take specific notes
- What ecological themes are common?
- Do you feel any themes are missing?
- Is there a take home message?
- Is there anything you don’t understand?
- Pay attention to little details
- Are there any patterns you see?
- Do you detect any issues?

Journal Club warning…
- If there is one thing that I know in life it is ferns!
- If there are two things that I know the second is if you have read the paper. It is obvious to me when you are not prepared for the readings. I can easily distinguish between misunderstanding and poor preparation!
- I take this very seriously and you will NOT do well in this class if you do not participate
- come to class prepared to speak!
